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Saturday, October 29, 2005

Comments

I only recently added comments to this blog (three or four months ago). I was an idiot to wait so long. Today, I chuckle when I see the first comment I ever got: I can imagine Acquarello throwing up his hands as he groaned, "About time!"

After reading Outer Life's post about comments, I realized my own take: I love 'em. I enjoy conversing in that little box. And posting linky dribbles in it during the course of the day. Like Jordan does.

So, anyway, just a word to say: Thanks for commenting. Thanks for reading. Now, off to work on a post that I've been pondering awhile — this one just might bring out your Inner Commenter on Monday morning.

Hey thanks, man.You know, my comment spam fears have proved unfounded. All this time, I've had just one or two spam messages. And that's without ever turning word verification on. Tuwa--you should do that on your blog. I've heard it works well.

Hey, are you projecting your gesticulatin' on me? ;) I must admit, I'm warming up to opening up comments as well (err, except for that spambot incident a couple of months ago, that is). Die spammers, die!

Oh, I guess I wasn't clear. They used to be moderated, so nothing posted immediately, so in that sense they're now "open" because it automatically posts. Yeah, the spambot thing seems to have been an MT-specific bot that was pretty insidious. Every 15 minutes, it sniffs out a random post, posts some quote that has a bunch of embedded gambling links to it. The IPs were also seemed to be randomly rotating, so even if you ban the IP, it would post on another zombie IP. I finally had to reinstall and rebuild the site after hoaking up the installation trying to find a way to obfuscate the comment form. I wasted four whole days working on that puppy.

I sometimes learn interesting stuff from the comments of others. Right now, the comment that won't leave my brain is, "Atlantic Broadband" sucks!" I am using the Miami Beach library computer, and can't update my blog.At least I have electricity so I am catching up on the DVDs I got from Netflix and Nicheflix that were waiting in the mail while I was out of town.

:)Thanks Girish! now I finally figure out what you've been talking about on this blog. hehe.

The translation is actually more coherent than on other online translators I've seen before. Look, they add an alternate translation (between brackets) when the word has 2 possible meanings. It even translates the external links!But since it tries to translate every word including brand names, slang and idiomatics it comes out really funny. Sometimes foreign movie subs sound just like that!

Hey Harry, your English is excellent.You put us all to shame.The idea of my going to a French blog, understanding it, and then commenting on it in French is pretty much unthinkable. Never gonna happen.So, you're way way ahead of us. :-)